Prior to Alfresco, John was responsible for running worldwide operations at Business Objects. During his tenure, Business Objects grew at 50% per annum to $415m and a market capitalisation in excess of $6B. Powell founded Business Objects UK in 1991, and built the UK organization and then the global organization into the most successful Business Intelligence player worldwide.

Prior to joining Business Objects, Powell worked in sales management positions at Oracle and Comshare. He has a BS First Class from Birmingham University.

For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. In addition, he built Documentum's marketing and professional services organizations in Europe. John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital.

John was one of the founding engineers at Ingres where he helped develop the world's first commercial relational database. John graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Prior to Alfresco, Ian was responsible for initially running European marketing and then worldwide marketing at SeeBeyond. During his tenure Europe grew from $6m to $69m per annum in 4 years and global revenue grew in one year from $137m to $163m. Ian also has a long history in content management. He was the first employee of Documentum in Europe and held various technical and marketing roles in the 7 years he was there. In this time Documentum grew from a start-up to a $200m per annum company.

Prior to this Ian worked in marketing and technical positions at Ingres. Ian has a BA in Computing and Statistics and a PhD in Distributed Databases from University College Cardiff.

David was designated Documentum's employee of the year for his work on Documentum's Web Development Kit and Webtop version 5. David also designed Documentum iTeam, team collaboration and knowledge management software.

Prior to Documentum, David was a principal engineer at Oracle working as an architect on CASE and repository tools. David's expertise covers J2EE, enterprise systems, UML/CASE tool development and meta-data repositories and has used this to produce a wide range of successful corporate solutions and developer SDK's.

His expertise covers Knowledge-based Expert Systems, Neural Networks, Information Extraction and Multilingual Natural Language Processing. As well as generating innovative solutions, Paul has extensive experience of rolling them out as corporate production systems.

Most recently, Paul has been working with Portal vendors to help them exploit content management within a Web Services context. Paul has PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Surrey.

Linton started his career at Reuters Usability Lab designing web based services and has gone on to work with companies including AOL, Symbian, Motorola and most recently Liquent (formerly CDC Solutions).

Linton has a BA Hons in Visual Design and Communication from Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and has lectured on the Interaction Design course at Ravensbourne and is the current course advisor.

Gavin was a lead developer on Documentum's Web Development Kit versions 4 and 5 providing an industry benchmark for Java-based web content management toolkits. Gavin has worked both in Documentum's US and UK development organizations.

Prior to Documentum, Gavin worked on Ford's initial pan-European web sites. Gavin has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Brighton.

Prior to professional software development, Andy was a chemical engineer with interests and experience in process simulation, process intensification, optimisation, control, and image analysis. As the process engineering program manager at Brewing Research International he worked with many brewing, malting and drinks companies such as Bass, Heineken and Briggs.

Andy taught at Edinburgh University where he received his PhD in Fluid Mechanics and graduated with a BA First Class from the University of Cambridge.

Derek started professional life as a Mechanical Engineer in South Africa but soon moved over to C++ development working in Cape Town. Derek has an MSc and BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town.

Prior to joining Alfresco Steve worked at Documentum for over 3 years and during his time there he was the lead QA engineer for Documentum's latest generation of Web Development Kit (WDK 5.0) and Webtop 5.0, as well as spending quality testing time with their portal and iTeam products.

A lead developer and thought leader on Documentum WDK 5 and responsible for significant areas of the Documentum WebTop application platform. Kevin has strong experience in performance tuning multi-user applications and J2EE application servers.

He has a keen interest in user-interface design and implementations. Kevin is also an active contributor to various open source projects.

Gary also designed NFS and FTP compatibility and a CIFS client as part of the JLan system. As Gary joined Alfresco, he has made this code available as open source in the Alfresco system.

Gary has 20 years of system development experience and has been doing Java development since it first appeared. He has developed network management software, performance and monitoring systems, and network drivers as well as application software and real-time systems.

His areas of expertise include J2EE and .Net development, with significant experience of MS Office integration.

Roy has worked for a wide variety of different clients throughout his career including the BBC and American Express. Roy has a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Bristol.